The Celebrator Beer News will celebrate its 27th anniversary on Sunday, February 15, 2015, with a Brewer’s party from 4–8pm at Trumer Brauerei in Berkeley, California. Over 35 other breweries will pour favorite brews as you mingle with CBN staff and writers, brewers, brewery owners and beer industry luminaries. Catering and beer are included, and tickets are only $60 per person! Also, there will be a FREE SHUTTLE from the North Berkeley BART Station to Trumer Brauerei.

Join Celebrator Editor/Publisher Tom Dalldorf on this tour of the beer paradise of Belgium, featuring Bruges, Ghent, Trappist Westvleteren taproom, brewery tours of Duvel, Halve Maan and Contreras, and the famous Zythos Beer Festival with more than 250 beers brewed by more than 60 of the finest Breweries in Belgium. Includes fine centrally-located hotels, three dinners, two lunches, brewery tours and taproom visits, festival admission, beer at brewery tours, group meals, the Festival and more!

Join Celebrator Editor/Publisher Tom Dalldorf on a West Coast cruise to Alaska from August 28 – September 4, 2015 along with other likeminded craft beer enthusiasts. To check out CBN's 2013 Brews Cruise to Alaska review, please click below.

The advent of Mandalay Bay’s inaugural BEER Weekend took things up a notch or five. Mandalay Bay is a sprawling casino/resort property. Its food and beverage director, Sarah Johnson, the first female Certified Cicerone in Nevada, spearheaded the ambitious BEER Weekend, offering up events that included a Brewmasters’ Dinner, a high-powered panel on the Craft Beer Revolution, a huge beer and food festival, and a Sunday Beer for Breakfast finale.

A group of national beer journalists were invited to the Idaho hop farm (all expenses paid) to experience hop growing and harvesting firsthand on August 18–20. We were told that we would be camping in the hopyards but that the accommodations would be “glamorous,” hence the term “glamping." Check it out!

Renowned author and beer expert Stephen Beaumont showing up in Las Vegas to host a Belgian-inspired beer-pairing dinner was incentive enough to draw in several of the city’s most avid beer fans, as well as those involved in the beer biz in the burgeoning beer scene of Las Vegas. Beaumont is recognized as one of the world’s leading writers on beer. Over the past 24 years, he has been published in countless magazines and has authored, coauthored and contributed to a dozen books, including The World Atlas of Beer.

The Celebrator Beer News celebrated its 26th Anniversary
on February 16, 2014, with a Mardi Gras party at the Trumer Brauerei in Berkeley, California. Over
30 breweries poured favorite brews as the crowd met up with CBN writers and beer industry luminaries, including pioneering figures
in the craft beer movement.

If you missed it, or just want to
relive moments from the party, check out our coverage by clicking the link below!

When the first issue of the California Celebrator hit the streets in January 1988, the sassy self-described “brewspaper” dedicated itself to covering the breweries and brewpubs in California — all 20 of them. This publication was founded by a beer-savvy young couple from Vancouver, B.C., whose previous publishing experience was limited to producing the newsletter for the Fogg n’ Suds beer bar in their hometown, where they both were beertenders. Earlier visits to California had convinced the pair that the Golden State was on to something, with microbreweries…